estimated with greater precision. The most empirically successful models include productivity measures, government spend- ing …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …

productivity. We investigate these phenomena further by examining the relationship between plant-level productivity and firm …-level R&D. We find that (1) the productivity-enhancing effects of parent firm R&D are diminished by geographic distance from … the research lab and `technological' distance between the product-field focus of the R&D and the plants; (2) productivity …

and capital are important for explaining procyclical productivity. Here I present two simple and direct tests of these …

manufacturing sector has little or no significant effect on the productivity of other sectors. Using value-added data, however, we …

procyclicality of productivity, and simultaneously predicts large welfare losses from monetary non-neutrality. The key features of …

The paper derives a consistent accounting framework for the treatment of inventories when measuring the productivity of … 9.6 percent per quarter total factor productivity growth rate over 6 quarters …

productivity …

utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional … equal, the error biases in standard productivity growth measures resulting from input fixity and scale economies are …

operated. using plant-level Census Bureau data, we show that productivity is inversely related to the degree of diversification …, the lower the productivity of its plants. Hence de-diversification is one of the means by which recent takeovers have … contributed to U.S. productivity growth. We also find that the effectiveness of regulations governing disclosure by companies of …